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By: SCHORER, Mark
Price: $15.50
Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 75358
An examination of the writings of the great poet, William Blake. Stated first printing, copyright page. In full blue cloth-covered boards with titling in gold on black spine block. Publisher's blue topstain. With 8 illustrations; indexed. --- A good, firm, unmarked copy but with some sun-fading to spine. Lacks a dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi, 524 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, Academy Chicago Publishers: 1999
Stock No.: 79089
The author, a noted German historian, was granted access during World War II to the highest echelons of Nazi leadership. This access allowed him to write the official War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. Edited, translated and with an introduction by Donald S. Detwiler. --- A clean, firm, unmarked softcover copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pages View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1949
Stock No.: 80998
Stated fourth printing (October 1949) of the autobiography of the noted German-French physician, theologian, writer, and organist. Dr. Schweitzer abandoned his stable life in Europe to establish a hospital in West-Central Africa, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. Translated from the German by C. T. Campion. Includes a postscript by Everett Skillings. --- In full beige cloth-covered boards with titling in black on spine. Simple blue jacket with unclipped flap... View more info
By: Schweizer, Peter
Price: $22.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Doubleday and Company: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 60158
RR's political journey as an anti-communist is detailed in this outstanding copy. First Ed. w/full no. line publisher's pg.; orig. DJ flap price of $26.00 present.; 60158; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: SHAW, Irwin
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Bernard Geis Associates: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 71325
Stated 1st printing of the popular novelist's account of his sailing trip in the Mediterranean. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth. Dolphin images gilt-stamped on cover, gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with Ben Feder color illustration on cover. --- With slight discoloration to cover edges; else a bright, firm, unmarked copy. Price-clipped dust jacket is bright, but with minor soiling and in removable mylar protector.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 154... View more info
By: SHIBER, Etta; DUPRE, Anne and Paul (collaborators)
Price: $11.50
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1943
Stock No.: 80430
Later printing of the gripping memoir of an American widow, who with her friend "Kitty Beaurepos" was able to help smuggle nearly 200 British soldiers out of occupied France while living in Paris during World War II. "Kitty Beaurepos" was a pseudonymn for Catherine (Kate) Bonnefous. --- In full tan cloth-covered boards w/Nazi chain decorations and titling on spine in red and black. Jacket repeats the Nazi/chain illustration. --- With prior owner's signat... View more info
By: SIMPSON, Joe
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Seattle, The Mountaineers: 1994
Stock No.: 78791
The author's account of his harrowing experiences in Peru and the Himalaya is presented, along with 62 b&w photos. A sequel to Mr. Simpson's "Touching the Void." --- In textured blue paper-covered boards w/gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with color Ama Deblam photos by Ray Delaney on front and back. --- A bright, clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket bears original $24.95 flap price; is in great shape and in removable mylar protector. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" ... View more info
By: SMITH, Nicol
Price: $19.50
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1940
Stock No.: 81979
The author's account of his travels on the Burma Road; over difficult mountain terrain from Lashio, Burma to Yun-Nan-Fu (Kunming), China. The route was used to reinforce the Chinese during the China-Japan wars of the 1930s and 1940s. Includes numerous black & white plates bearing author's photographs of scenes along the road. With map of the area at rear endpapers. --- In full dark red cloth-covered boards with decorations & titling in gilt on cover and spine. Volume la... View more info
By: SMUCKER, Samuel M.; WILLIAMS, H. L.
Price: $78.50
Publisher: New York, Hurst & Co:
Stock No.: 74511
An early work, describing the religion founded by Joseph Smith, in an undated reprint copy. Likely published c.1880-1910. Labeled as publisher's 'Arlington Edition' on front cover. Includes frontis illustration depicting the death of Smith by N. Orr. In full navy cloth covered-boards and with yellowed, brittle pages. With a few smudges and discolorations on the covers; interior has a torn out page and a few leaves with tears. Textblock is firm. A very scarce work in a da... View more info
By: SNIDER, Duke; GILBERT, Bill
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Zebra Books: 1988
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Stock No.: 76021
Sharp copy of Duke Snider's memoir of his great career with the Brooklyn (and Los Angeles) Dodgers, in a first edition, first printing copy. Introduction by teammate Carl Erskine; with numerous photos in center section. --- Volume is in good shape; clean bright and unmarked. Dust jacket bears original $17.95 flap price.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 288 pages View more info
By: SNOW, C. P.
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1975
Stock No.: 78792
A lavishly-illustrated biography of the prolific Anthony Trollope by the noted British novelist C. P. Snow. Illustrations depict scenes from Trollope's life as well as works by contemporary artists of sights likely observed by Mr. Trollope. --- In terra cotta full cloth-covered boards w/gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with James Tissot color painting of attendees at a social event. --- Prior owner's embossed seal on title page and light wear to edges; else a firm, unm... View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1967
Stock No.: 81799
First Edition. The author profiles nine mostly European people of means, eight men and one woman, who sought adventure, wealth, hunting and/or the experience of traveling in the untamed American West. With plenty of black & white drawings, photos and maps. --- In brown and green cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations in gilt and maroon on cover and spine. Jacket with color cover and spine illustrations. --- A very nice copy: clean, unmarked and firmly bound. P... View more info
By: STEGNER, Wallace
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday: 1974
Stock No.: 72732
Much praised biography of writer DeVoto by the noted author Stegner in a very nice copy. With many b&w photos of Mr DeVoto and his associates. In 2-toned brown full cloth covers with very light edgewear. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. Possible remainder spray on lower edge. Dust jacket light chafed, espec. at edges & w/very sm closed tear at back cover; bears orig $12.50 flap price. In removable mylar protector.; 8vo 8" - 9-1/2" tall; 464 pages View more info
By: STEGNER, Wallace
Price: $15.50
Publisher: New York, Wings Books: 1995
Stock No.: 74283
In maroon paper-covered boards with titling in blue on spine. Interior pages clean and unmarked, but just a bit yellowed. Dust jacket in nice shape. Collection of personal essays written by the great novelist and taking a look back at his beloved American West. ; 8vo 8" - 10" tall; xxiii, 227 pages View more info
By: STEINBACH, Alice
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 2000
Stock No.: 74188
Second printing. In navy and cream paper-covered boards with lettering in gilt on spine. Interior features color reproductions of postage stamps throughout; and with illustrations. A clean, bright and firm copy of author's memoir of her travels.; 8vo 8" - 10" tall; 280 pages View more info
By: STEINBECK, John
Price: $25.00
Publisher: MeadWestvaco: 2002
Stock No.: 75706
A special, limited edition of the author's memoir of his trip across the U.S. with his poodle, Charley. Published as the 2002 entry in MeadWestvaco Corporation's American Classics Series. In blue quarter cloth over white paper-covered boards and in slipcase. Titling in gilt on spine. Endpapers, covers, slipcase and title page all bear picture postcard-look graphics in bright colors and with U.S. state names. --- In top shape, clean, bright and crisp. (Any reference to du... View more info
By: STEPHENS, Brad (compiler); COLLINS, Grellet (publisher)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Dill & Collins Co.: 1923
Stock No.: 80779
This pictorial biography of Benjamin Franklin was published in conjunction with the 200th anniversary of Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia. Text compiled from four different biographies, as well as other sources, by Brad Stephens. With many black & white illustrations as well as color frontis N. C. Wyeth painting depicting Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia, as well as a color portrait of Franklin by Joseph Sifrede Duplessis. A 1955 U. S. Post Office Department press re... View more info
By: STERNE, Laurence; GRANT, Douglas (editor)
Price: $42.00
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1950
Stock No.: 79098
A collection of the principal works of the 18th Century British novelist and clergyman in the publisher's Reynard Library Series. Edited, and with an introduction, by Douglas Grant. --- In full beveled-edge reddish brown cloth-covered boards; titling and decorations gilt-stamped on cover and spine. Jacket with R. Stone woodcut illustration of a fox and foliage. --- With a touch of sunning to lower spine area; otherwise a clean, bright, firm copy. Dust jacket with conside... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Fords, Howard, Hulbert: 1878
Stock No.: 73612
Former property of the library.In green cloth-covered boards with decorations and lettering in black on cover; in black and gilt on spine. With numerous b&w engraved illustrations, including tissue-protected frontis illust. Likely first edition, but not possible to verify for this publisher. Volume is cocked, and with interior smudges and some soiling and foxing. Library ownership evidence consists of rubberstampings at endpapers, and at least once in mid-volume; pocket ... View more info
By: STRACHEY, Lytton
Price: $15.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [1954]
Stock No.: 76628
Four short biographies of leading persons living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and Gen. "Chinese" Gordon. This work first published in 1918. With a preface by the author. --- Toledano spine 8, w/green cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks, black topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Volume bears 1918 date but likely published c.1954. Jacket style i, verso advertises 371 titles in... View more info
By: STRACHEY, Lytton
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.: [ca.1920s-30s]
Stock No.: 78599
A reprint edition featuring four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and Gen. "Chinese" Gordon. With four portraits of the subjects. This work first published in 1918. Includes a preface by the author. --- In rose cloth-covered boards with titling in yellow on cover & spine. Lacks a dust jacket. Undated, but likely published ca.1920s-1930s. --- Covers w... View more info
By: Strober, Gerald & Deborah Hart Strober
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1998
Stock No.: 73105
Authors' unique perspective on Ronald Reagan's presidency involves interviews with over a hundred key players and their direct quotes regarding moments along the way. First Edition/First Printing.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 622 pages View more info
By: SUETONIUS (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus)
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1953]
Stock No.: 81902
The history of the famous Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, was carried forward from ancient times to the modern era largely through the efforts of Suetonius, a 1st and 2nd Century Roman historian. His writings have been rendered into English in this unexpurgated Modern Library edition. With notes and an introduction by Joseph Gavorse. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers /... View more info
Price: $49.00
Publisher: Denver, Colorado / Boulder, Colorado, Denver Posse of the Westerners / Johnson Publishing Company: 1956
Stock No.: 81669
The 1955 edition is the eleventh in the series of "Brand Books", as issued by the Denver Posse of The Westerners group. These books present historical vignettes, biographical profiles and other historical stories from various places in the American West. In this edition, the stories are accompanied by black & white photos, maps (both folding and at endpapers) and drawings. Some of the topics covered are the Lincoln County War (New Mexico), early days in Alturas C... View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1956]
Stock No.: 81503
The life the great Italian painter, sculptor, architect and writer is presented in this Modern Library hardcover reprint edition. With striking color illustration on jacket cover by E. McKnight Kauffer. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 377 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (no publication date appears in book). ML #49.2. --- A very nice ... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Ankeny, Iowa, Soil Conservation Society of America: 1987
Stock No.: 82251
A collection of essays honoring the life and legacy of Aldo Leopold, author of "A Sand County Almanac". Mr. Leopold was active in the fields of wildlife and wilderness preservation. --- A softcover in brown wraps, with photo of Leopold to cover. --- With some sunning to cover, else a clean, bright, unmarked copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xv, 175 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday: 1952
Stock No.: 72884
A one-volume look at Sir Winston's life in a good copy. Book club edition, in full blue cloth covers. Interior clean & bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has 2 in. tear at head of spine; has other chips and tears but is intact and in removable mylar protector.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: TENZING, Tashi; TENZING, Judy
Price: $28.50
Publisher: Camden, Maine, Ragged Mountain Press/McGraw-Hill: 2001
Stock No.: 77326
First Printing in this American trade paperback edition. An account of the life of and accomplishments of Tenzing Norgay, and a biography of the sherpas of Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal. With forewords by Sir Edmund Hillary and the Dalai Lama. With numerous maps and photos. Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund were the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. Tashi Tenzing is the grandson of Tenzing Norgay who was assisted by his wife Judy in the writing of this b... View more info
By: TIGHE, Ronald
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Denver, Golden Bell Press: 1979
Stock No.: 77394
Former newsman's account of his quest to ride on horseback, alone, along the Continental Divide from Mexico to Canada. The journey ended up taking three summers to complete. With 4 b&w photos near the front of the volume. --- Trade paperback in white wraps. A clean, firm, unmarked copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pages View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Anchor Books/Doubleday: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 78894
First printing. The author follows climber Dan Osman and friends as they attempt seemingly impossible climbs. --- In black & blue paper-covered boards. Jacket with Eric Perlman color photo. --- A clean, bright copy in similar jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 210 pages View more info
By: TWAIN, Mark
Price: $31.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: [c.1930s-40s]
Stock No.: 80352
An illustrated reprint edition of Mark Twain's 1883 work, which has been described as "part travel book, part autobiography and part social commentary". In publisher's "Holiday Edition", with color frontis and 8 black and white illustrations by Walter Stewart. --- In black cloth-covered boards, Stewart's color frontis illustration pasted to cover (and repeated on jacket), with gilt-stamped spine titling. Likely published c.1930s-40s, though 1917 date appe... View more info
By: TWAIN, Mark (CLEMONS, Samuel)
Price: $460.00
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. USA, The American Publishing Company: 1897
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 81715
First edition of the account by Mark Twain (1835-1910) of his world travels, written while on lecture tour for purposes of debt reduction. This work represents the fifth and final travel book by Clemons, and focuses on experiences and sights encountered in India, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Fiji, Mauritius and South Africa. Includes frontis photo of Twain, as well as many, many additional black & white drawings, sketches and photos scattered throughout the volume. -... View more info
By: TWAIN, Mark; SMITH, Harriet Elinor (editor)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 82451
First edition, first printing of this, the definitive autobiography of Samuel Clemens. Volume 1 only (of three). This hefty four-pound book includes a section of black and white plates, depicting people and places in Mr. Twain's life. Edited, along with other editors of the Mark Twain Project, by Harriet Elinor Smith. --- In cream paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, w/titling gilt-stamped on spine. Dust jacket with William Vander Weyde photo of Mr. Clemons on co... View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: New York, Benziger Brothers: 1936
Stock No.: 77676
First Edition. A fictionalized account of the life of Elizabeth Seton, founder of the Sisters of Charity. With six brown-toned illustrations, publisher's red topstain.In royal blue cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped titling on spine. Pale yellow jacket repeats one of the interior illustrations.A firm, clean, bright copy but top strip on front free endpaper has been cut off. Jacket with creases and minor chafing at edges; else quite nice and in removable archival mylar pr... View more info
By: VASARI, Giorgio
Price: $16.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1964]
Stock No.: 81774
Written in 1567, this profile of leading Italian artists has endured through the centuries and presented in a Modern Library reprint edition. Abridged from the translation by Gaston DuC. DeVere. Edited and with an introduction by Robert N. Linscott. --- In Toledano spine 11 / green cloth / ML hex logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but no specific number. Likely published ... View more info
By: VESTAL, Stanley
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press: 1971
Stock No.: 74282
Third softcover printing of work which was first written in 1946. In a clean copy but with prev. owner's inked name on title page. Textblock firm, covers rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 333 pages View more info
By: VILLEHARDOUIN, Geffroi de; JOINVILLE, Jean , Sire de
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1957
Stock No.: 81736
This Everyman's Library edition presents two accounts by French noblemen of their respective 13th century crusades. Villehardouin recounts events in the Fourth Crusade of 1202-04; de Joinville the Crusade of Louis IX from 1248 to 1254. Translated from the French and with an introduction by Sir Frank Marzials. Number 333 in Everyman's Library History series. --- A 1957 reprint edition, in Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full pale red cloth-covered board... View more info
By: VITALE, Serena
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1999
Edition: First American Edition
Stock No.: 82117
Stated first English-language edition. An examination of the last four months of the life of the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837). Pushkin was killed in a duel with his brother-in-law, a result of a complicated series of events and interrelationships. This edition rendered into English from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild. --- In charcoal paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, with titling stamped in gilt on spine. Dust jacket features ... View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1952
Stock No.: 74547
First Edition, with small card requesting a book review from publisher. In maroon full cloth-covered boards with titling and author's facsimile signature on cover and spine. Interior with full-page frontis map of Korea (repeated on back of jacket). Cover with rubbing and superficial scratches; interior clean and bright. Jacket has chafing at crease points and edges; bears orig. $3 flap price and in mylar protector. --- From the jacket: 'This book is packed with outspoken... View more info
By: Weaver, William; Puccini, Simonetta
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc: 1994
Stock No.: 73197
Compendium of articles about the great opera composer, Giacomo Puccini. Edited by William Weaver, with essay by Puccini's granddaughter, Simonetta Puccini. With many photos. Second printing. Volume has been exposed to dampness; upper parts of pages slightly rippled. With inked presentation remarks, front free endpaper; otherwise interior clean and bright. Dust jacket rippled but otherwise undamaged; bears orig. $30 flap price. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 448 pages View more info
